Joe Rogers: virtual gun control

7:15 PM,
Jan. 21, 2013

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A while back I watched intermittently as a young teenage boy spent a couple of hours blithely killing people practically nonstop in a video game.

The memory was revived by the current public discussion related to the school massacre in Newtown, Conn., the latest in an apparently unending stream of mayhem in this country. Gun laws, treatment of the mentally ill and a general media culture of violence have all come up for scrutiny and blame.